In his home town of Kobane, this boy's life would have been constantly threatened by the possibility of being brutally murdered by Isis, caught in the crossfire of a vicious battle for control, or randomly killed by US attempts to bomb Isis positions to the point where the whole town has been flattened.

The truly shocking part of it is that no legitimate route to safety was available to this little boy and his family due to the cowardice and inertia of many Western countries.

Late in the day, Germany and Sweden have set a humanitarian example, but there is still no safe route to them - quite the reverse.